Recycled Dream Spring Tree

To celebrate spring make a 'dream' tree composed of spring flowers and blossoms. This activity includes 8 spring flower templates for you to download. You may also include recycled paper flowers with painted flowers as per the example spring tree above.

Note this tree is a beautiful decoration over 1.3m / 4.3 feet high!

Object:

• Cultural celebration.
• Artistic expression.

Materials:

• Tree templates provided (see below)
• Colourful magazines, old calendars, travel agency brochures.
• Construction paper in bright colours and plain paper.
• Glue and Blue Tack
• Pencils, crayons and/or paint for decoration
• Scissors

Instructions:

• Download colouring flower outlines and transfer onto strong cardboard to make a durable template.
• Sit residents around a table and give each a pair of scissors.
• Using the cardboard templates, trace flowers onto magazines, calendars and brochures. Talk about spring with your residents whilst you do this. Have a little game going by asking what words they remember relating to spring. Use the opportunity to reminisce about what sort of flowers they used to plant and love.
• Ask residents to cut out traced flowers from magazines etc.
• Trace some flower templates onto some plain white paper if residents feel like colouring in or painting.
• You may also trace some onto colourful leftover construction paper on which the residents can then draw the stamen and the pistil.
• Download the trunk template (A, B & C) and trace onto black or brown construction paper.
• Take residents to assembly location; a wall or large cork board. Sit residents around to watch and have a couple to hand you the flowers.
• Start with the 'trunk' of the tree. Place it firmly on the wall with blue tack, be generous with the blue tack or it will fall down after a couple of days.
• Enjoy the view!